{"id":188,"date":"2011-10-30T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamradiobooks.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2011-10-30T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T22:04:41","slug":"arrl-antenna-book-the-ultimate-reference-for-amateur-radio-antennas-transmission-lines-and-propagation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/ham-radio-books\/arrl-antenna-book-the-ultimate-reference-for-amateur-radio-antennas-transmission-lines-and-propagation\/","title":{"rendered":"ARRL Antenna Book: The Ultimate Reference for Amateur Radio Antennas, Transmission Lines and Propagation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ARRL-Antenna-Book-medium.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192\" title=\"ARRL Antenna Book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ARRL-Antenna-Book-medium.png\" alt=\"ARRL Antenna Book\" width=\"169\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ARRL Antenna Book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you are looking for an incredibly thorough antenna reference, the ARRL publishes one of those too, the <a title=\"The ARRL Antenna Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0872599876\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwpreparedb-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0872599876\" target=\"_blank\">ARRL Antenna Book<\/a>: The Ultimate Reference for Amateur Radio Antennas, Transmission Lines, and Propagation. It\u2019s very comprehensive (as its long title would indicate) and I\u2019m not aware of anything more detailed or thorough when it comes to understanding antennas of many types. It describes almost any kind of antenna you can imagine (and probably many you wouldn\u2019t), with building guides and specifications for many types of antenna projects.<\/p>\n<p>Update (4\/19\/2014) I have referred to this book several times over the years. But since I&#8217;m not an electrical engineer, I&#8217;ve usually spent more time referring to less meaty books, for example, <a title=\"Low Profile Amateur Radio \u2013 Save Yourself a Ton of Effort!\" href=\"http:\/\/hamradiobooks.com\/low-profile-amateur-radio-save-yourself-a-ton-of-effort\/\" target=\"_blank\">Low Profile Amateur Radio<\/a>. That&#8217;s not to say <em>you<\/em> won&#8217;t find many uses for this reference.\u00a0No ham radio library is complete without it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for an incredibly thorough antenna reference, the ARRL publishes one of those too, the ARRL Antenna Book: The Ultimate Reference for Amateur Radio Antennas, Transmission Lines, and Propagation. It\u2019s very comprehensive (as its long title would indicate) and I\u2019m not aware of anything more detailed or thorough when it comes to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/ham-radio-books\/arrl-antenna-book-the-ultimate-reference-for-amateur-radio-antennas-transmission-lines-and-propagation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ARRL Antenna Book: The Ultimate Reference for Amateur Radio Antennas, Transmission Lines and Propagation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}